Mary Simms Oliphant

Mary Chevillette Simms Oliphant (January 6, 1891 – July 27, 1988) was a South Carolina historian.

The following year, shortly after her marriage to Albert Drane Oliphant (who died in 1935), she finished the book and it was adopted by the state Board of Education.

Later, in collaboration with her daughter, Mary Simms Oliphant Furman (1918-2013), she produced a reader to introduce third-graders to South Carolina history.

She also succeeded in having her ancestral home, "Woodlands", in Bamberg County, designated as a National Historic Landmark.

[3][4] Charles Thomas, a Greenville writer, called her "South Carolina's First Lady of Letters.